New Drug Known As ‘Strawberry Quick’

There is a type of crystal meth going around that looks like strawberry pop rocks (the candy that sizzles and ‘pops’ in your mouth). It also smells like strawberry and it is being handed out to kids in school yards. They are calling it strawberry meth or strawberry quick.

Kids are ingesting this thinking that it is candy and being rushed off to emergency in dire condition. It also comes in chocolate, peanut butter, cola, cherry, grape and orange. 

Please instruct your children to not accept candy from strangers and even not to accept candy that looks like this from a friend (who may have been given it and believe it is candy) and to take any that they may have to a teacher, principal, etc. immediately.

Pass this email on to as many people as you can (even if they don’t have kids) so that we can raise awareness and hopefully prevent any tragedies from occurring.

It is quoted by hoax-slayer as Contains elements of truth. However, email warnings are highly exaggerated and inaccurate.

Quoted from Snopes – Some drug dealers sell colored crystal methamphetamine that coincidentally resembles “Pop Rocks” or other forms of candy:  True. Some dealers sell crystal methamphetamine that has been flavoured in order to make it more appealing to children:  False.

Urbanlegends quoted as “Partly true / Overblown”

Sources:

http://www.hoax-slayer.com/strawberry-quick-meth.shtml

http://www.snopes.com/horrors/drugs/candymeth.asp

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/05/02/health/main2752266.shtml

http://urbanlegends.about.com/b/2007/05/08/strawberry-quick-flavored-methamphetamine-warning.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strawberry_quick_meth

http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_strawberry_meth.htm

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18557266/

http://abcnews.go.com/us/story?id=2990334&page=1

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/calgary/story/2008/02/07/strawberry-meth.html